Hello everyone, I am reading for some time now about backup solutions, especially the 'rdiff-backup' (=> 'RDB') approach looks great. The RDB Windows-port is working fine for local backup of my Windows-data. Now I'd like to extend this further.
Since backup+restore is such a common task, I'd like to know if others have already designed a solution or have some hints for me for the following scenarios: - with backup I mean data-only, not the operating system itself (I have images for that task) - final backup storage destination is local PC (Win XP SP3, reasonably large NTFS partition) AIMS: 1. I need to backup my 3 Windows systems (Win XP, all with NTFS) 2. backup of Linux-servers (currently 3) 3. backup of content inside VMWare-images, also VMWare-images itself - I need daily backups of servers, and in case my final backup-destination PC is not powered-on, I cannot use Windows-RDB on my local side and RDB on the server-side. => So I must backup each server via RDB (or one of the wrappers below) locally first. - When the final backup-destination Windows-PC is running, I'd like to synchonize/copy the linux-server's backups made locally via RDB to the NTFS-partition. AIM 3 would be accomplished for the VMWare-images-part with AIM 1, for the Linux-content _inside_ the VMWare-image, this resolves to my AIM 2, for which I do not have a solution yet. Now my questions are: This is the point where I am stuck now. AFAICT it's not possible to use (cw-)rsync to an NTFS partition, is that right? How did others solve that problem? (Backup to Windows via RDB the already locally backupped RDB-archive?) Those solutions I am considering for Linux/Local-to-Linux backups: http://code.autistici.org/trac/backupninja second option: http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/index.shtml simpler approach: http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupServer +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
